The Girl With The Needle
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Straight from the Cannes Competition, this intense true crime drama steeped in brilliantly executed tension and dread follows a young factory worker in post WW1 Copenhagen who gets involved in an underground adoption agency.
Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne, Holiday, SFF 2018; Godland, SFF 2022) works as a machinist in a factory manufacturing uniforms. Her husband went off to the frontline and never returned. Through her rebelliousness, Karoline attracts the attention of wealthy, aristocratic factory owner Jorgen and the two embark on a reckless affair. When she falls pregnant and Jorgen promises marriage, Karoline finally imagines a more comfortable life. But it is not to be, and she finds herself unemployed and abandoned. A chance meeting with Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm, Queen of Hearts, SFF 2019), a kindly sweet shop owner, leads to Karoline taking employment at the shop, which also serves as a front for underground adoption. But behind the façade lies a devastating reality about the fates of these children destined for new homes. With tremendous performances, The Girl with the Needle is a meticulously crafted and observed descent into the darkest shadows of human behaviour. 
- Program Strand
- Late Announce
- Classification
- Unclassified 18+
- Country
- Denmark, Poland, Sweden
- Premiere Status
- Australian Premiere
- Director
- Magnus von Horn
- Producer
- Mariusz Włodarski, Malene Blenkov
- Cast
- Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri
- Screenwriter
- Line Langebek, Magnus von Horn
- Genre
- Focus on Women, Human Rights, Cannes Selected, Late Announce
- Company Credits
- Sales Agent: The Match Factory, Sales Agent: The Match Factory/Danish Film Institute
